life drawing and other school art

[fredflickstone]

got some images here from recent all the way back to several years ago...finally got them scanned.


Ron
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f1.jpg http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f2.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f3.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f4.jpg

[fredflickstone]

http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f5.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f6.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f7.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f8.jpg

[fredflickstone]

http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f9.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f10.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f11.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f12.jpg

[fredflickstone]

http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f14.jpg http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f15.jpg http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f16.jpg

[cityworker]

you make me sick ron. incredible

[fredflickstone]

Sorry, these werent shot that well. SOme are really washed oout in value from the spot light.
I am reshooting many of these. Sorry for the poor quality of photos///my bad.

[mtw]

*brain overload*

Those are really good. I'll be spending a lot of time looking through these.

[nor]

RIGHT-CLICK.SAVE.

[Fipse]

I normally don´t use this because it´s a little bit overused, but: :jawdrop:

Really fine work. Ipersonally like your strong usage of linevalues and darks (hope I make sense). What have you been using for this pictures, conté or charcoal? Anyway, great and with a very classic approach!

Fipse

[I.was.ink]

WOw! These are just too good. I'm speechless....I dont know what to say...!:eek:

[fredflickstone]

http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f17.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f18.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f19.jpg http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f20.jpg

[fredflickstone]

http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f21.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f22.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f23.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f24.jpg
http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f25.jpg http://www.rev-art.com/lemenimages/f26.jpg

[fredflickstone]

Some of these are too dark. The images are scanned from photos shot with a Nikon F11. They are alright quality, but between the scanner and the final image, it loses something.

Thanks for the kind words. This is a small drop in this newsprint bucket I have here. I will post more later. I actually needed to upload these for other reasons, and I want to share.

They were done with a Ritmo Charcoal Pencil on 18 x 24, or in some cases 24 x 36 smooth newsprint. These are demos, long drawings quicksketches, anatomy drawings, etc.

All Atelier work...training...lots of it...:chug:

[Sketch]

I haven't replied on this forum in awhile... but this one is worth it. Beautiful work! Your portraits are stunning. They really have a lot of personality.
What tools are you using for most of these?

Keep on adding some more!

[Sketch]

lol. You answered my question as I was writing it. Thanks for the info!

[dns2k]

even more work i get to save of yours :) awesome ron

-dns

[DuoDecahedron]

I've been lurking a while and just reading...but I just had to post when I saw these.

That is some incredible pencil-work. I'm just speechless.

[Jason Manley]

this is how ya do it folks.....thanks for bringing the life drawing section around ron....wonderful stuff....very inspiring.


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[Coma]

My heart is actually beating irregularly...
Thanks for sharing!

[jwo]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/5stars.gif

[geoffd]

very humbling... and very inspirational. draw from life is all i seem to hear on these boards and now i know why. this is fantastic.... is it ok if i'm crying?:eek: wow...
fantastic job.

[AmadorL]

Hey Ron is this the best you can do ? "cake" bring it on buddy.
:D

Amador

[Mykro]

Tutorials you bastard! Write a book! Something!

[pandawhipped]

Hey Ron, I never knew so much of the work hanging up at school was yours. Thanks for posting all of this...very inspiring! :chug:

[Deth Jester]

The series of your friend with the beard in the hat.. I love it! Freaking amazing.. You have put in a lot of hard work and it really shows.. Thanks for sharing and being so inspirational...

-mike

[behemot5]

:cry:

[Rohan]

wow, these drawings really speak clearly, and are all executed so tightly but don't look overworked at all. amazing work. inspiring and depressing at the same time:)

[DragonGX]

those are amazing.. very inspiring life drawings..

[ceenda]

Really inspiring work.

What grade of pencils are you using for these?

[Treb]

I felt chills while scrolling down this thread.

You are a God.

Thanks for sharing these with us, Ron.

[Lung_bug]

thanks for getting some great creative spirit into forums, ron! i'm sure we'll all learn a lot from these (i know i have from your anticz tutorials)

these make the wait for the fine arts college quite hard :)

[fredflickstone]

Sketch, I am honored you replied to this thread of all the great art threads here. Thank you very much.

dnsk2-arent you supposed to be studying?:beer:

DuoDechahedron-I spelled that wrong I bet; thank you for your words, it was very nice of you to say what you said.

Jason, thanks. I will contribute more when I can, I just got over the blaster worm, and had no idea thats what I had. 9 days of computer agony, until finally a student recognized the symptoms and told me what to do...hopefully I will be around more now...except for school...doh

Coma-breathe deep...heh...thank you.

jwo, thank you very much.

Captain Harlock-thank you also...tears are shed by me every time I see something new and good. I need a box of kleenex for this forum alone...

AmadorL-I'll try harder...:)thanks.

Myrko-I am trying...soon I hope.

pandawhipped-very cool name. And you are welcome, I hope to post some more soon.

Deth Jester-that day I was on. I felt good about those drawings. They are 2-5-10 minute quick sketches. I tried for finishes every time. I got pretty consistent that day.

behemot5-:chug:

Rohan-thank you. I worked hard for many years to finally see looser. I have some other stuff that feels looser yet tight to me, I have yet to shoot them.

DragonGX-thank you.

ceenda-thank you my friend. Good to hear from you again. They are Ritmo Charcoal pencils. Not made anymore. I have a few left that I use when drawing from life. If I can get more, I do. I am a drug addict when it comes to those pencils...

Treb-thank you for your words. I am not that good. Just trying to get there...whereever there is. I look back in history, and i am just barely scratching it(my opinion only)
but I feel confident, which keeps me going every day. Thank you for your words of inspiration.

Lung_bug-thank you and I hope to be posting more tutorials soon. I just need to find a bit of time to gather everything together...soon...


Thank you all again, I hope to post more here soon. Maybe in just a bit if my server will let me.


Ron

[gekitsu]

mr lemen, i learned a huge lot from your drawings, thank you for posting them.

when you shoot and post more, could i ask for more "unfinished" drawings where we can see your early marks, what you delineate first, how you see shapes etcetera?

these charcoal pencils you speak about, what would they compare to (roughly)?
i guess they are softer than my conte charcoal pencil but it cold be the hard reproduction of the images...

[michael see]

one of the best life drawing thread i've seen so far..
out standing~!!..:)

[DragonGX]

Did you use Vine charcoal for these in addition to charcoal pencil? some of the marks look liek vine charcoal to me more than charcoal pencils.. unless your charcoal pencils are different type than the kind I have, which are just like graphite pencils, but with charcoal instead..

[Beatnik]

Thank you for sharing these. Absolutely incredible.

[sagerussell]

...and you still find time to post and share wise words on the forum.. there must be 3 of you ronnie. S

[MindCandyMan]

dang dang dang dang these are amazing...1 more week till I'm finally at the atelier I am going to....if after 4 years I can draw like this...I will be happy...fantastic stuff

[TENLLADO STUDIO]

Woooooooooooooowwwwww, it's amazing, really really good work, thanks for drawing.

Regards,Tenllado.:bow:


TENLLADO STUDIO (http://www.telefonica.net/web/amtenllado)

[davi]

fredflickstone, i'm humbled that you have decided to post on CA. Please continue inspiring and awing us with your splenderous imagery.

[BadMange]

Ron-

Your use of a white background with the red "X" against it is...truly amazing! I'm gonna save these to my HD and copy them! :D

Seriously, please fix your links so I can see them!

-Bad Mange

[Gillespie]

Looks like his bandwidth limit was exceeded.

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I just had a look and I'm really hard pressed to remember having seen drawings this good before. A good reminder of why everything shouldn't just be photographed and filed.

[BadMange]

Yeah, he needs to put those up on a free image hosting site so we're not costing Ron money!

[hoku]

just spoke with Jeff Watts for Watts Atelier, and he mentioned someone called Ron.

I guess that's you. Hi. Maybe there's one more advantage to SD county than just the Surf and kf.


:eek: :p checkin' it out tomorrow

[fredflickstone]

gekitsu -Thank you and I will get some roughs up soon. I am shooting my pad...soon.

michael see -wow, thank you. thank you very much

DragonGX -no vine charcoal. Straight Ritmo pencil.

Beatnik-thank you also.

sagerussell-heh, there are 4 actually. heh.Hello...

MindCandyMan-thank you, what atelier are you attending?
TENLLADO STUDIO-thank you. I got your email, I will get back to you asap...

davi-geez, thank you. I like forums like these, full of inspired artists...keeps me going too...thank you again.

BadMange- Gillespie- hoku-hopefully you can see them now...hoku. Are you planning on attending the atelier? Hope to see you there if so.


Thanks again, I will be posting some more tutorials soon, I had a run with freelance that swamped my extra time, I have more now...I will get back on it soon.

ROn

[softdrawer]

i gotta try out those Ritmo's

nice work btw

alx

[Adam Carnes]

http://www.adamcarnes.com/gallery/drawings/8-20.jpg

http://www.adamcarnes.com/gallery/drawings/9-4.jpg

http://www.adamcarnes.com/gallery/drawings/handstudies.jpg

Ron- much respect, i have learned a lot from seeing your work. Thanks for sharing.

[electroganic]

Wow so fluid and structual. I love how some of your shadows just fall off into the background so subtle and beautiful. Your faces are amazing, 2-5-10 minutes that's incredible, I think I need to practice some more. You say they don't make Ritmo charcoal pencils anymore, have you come across anything thats similar that one can still purchase?
Thanks so much for posting you truely are an inspiration.

[undergroundkg]

drawings like these drive me to keep trying. these are an inspiration

[BadMange]

Ron, these are amazing! The tonal depth you get is really beautiful, thanks for sharing.

For those of you looking for the Ritmo charcoal pencils, do a Google search and you'll find them.

-Bad Mange

[rybeck]

Drawing hand is one of difficult parts that I have challenged to practice over and over...
Adam, don't get me wrong but I want to share the way I practice the hand;

(1) do many gesture hand sketch in various poses in thumbnail size
(2) study with anatomical reference for detail construction, such as muscle and bones
(3) spend more time than you think it would be enough for drawing both hands and feet in figure drawing.

Please remind me if you want me to scan some my sketches...

Keep drawing, and do some more...

[TheBlasianOne]

:jawdrop: do you have a book out? if not, you should do one. please. WOW

[dilation]

amazing ... i can look at these all day

[The_Dude_Abidin]

Wow man, I have to say, nice work and a good amount of it. Some of the drawing is very very strong. good line and good gesture. Its late and the amount of work is almost overbearing. I really like the style you seem to have moved into in these studies. some of the portraitature is stunning with the mix of detail and brevity of stroke. Keep it up and would love to see more.

The Dude

[PushPop]

RITMOS are still made, but only in name. The pencil currently widely available as a "RITMO" has very little relation to the old RITMOS that fanatics (like Ron) hang on to and use

[poly_cube]

Incredibly amazing and inspiring.... er I mean :jawdrop:

[Ismail]

I love your tonal study of William Bouguereau's
"The Flagellation of Christ " :)
Very beautiful life drawings. :) An inspiration to many, please feel free to keep on sharing. :)

[jrr]

http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/laying.jpg
http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/handman.jpg
http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/womanback.jpg

new stuff, sorry for the crappy photos.

[Velo]

Wow! I love your bold contrast in the core shadows. They look almost black! It works so well, all of your forms seem extreemly round. I'm going to have to try more contrast. :D

[Rantz]

sweet baby jesus on a pogo stick...

(makes mental note to get back to woodshedding...)

[Main Loop]

really amazing work.. are you a teacher? cuz some of the comments led me to believe so..

[jrr]

who? ron?

[dns2k]

Ron teaches at Watts Atelier in San Diego and is as bad ass as they come. If your ever near SD come and stop by the school he and the other instructors are awesome.

-dns

[jrr]

http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/trainheads.jpg

http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/bending.jpg

http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/forum/lying.jpg

all ball pint pens.

[scumworks]

Fred, your work inspires me... to JUMP OFF A BRIDGE! I WILL NEVER DRAW THAT GOOD, DAGM YOU TALENTED PEOPLE... DAGM YOU!

[jrr]

more!
http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/bottom.jpg
http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/heads2.jpg
http://www.jrtistic.com/images/junk/parsonstwo.jpg

[dns2k]

very kool figures in the last post and also the face in the center in the one before it.

-dns

[ErikH]

JRR- nice work. I definately see JIm McMullen's influence but you've made it your own which is nice. I never took his classes when I was at SVA (I spent more time with Sam Martine, John Ruggeri and a semester with Tom) but one thing that bothered me is his courses creates a lot of clones. You've sort of denied that and create some really nice drawings.

Cheers.

[jrr]

thanks erik,
i took assael for painting/drawing at the same time as high focus, and both helped me see better. i really enjoyed the experience.
once in a while i'd drift off and become a highfocus drone. i guess it all depends on the student. everyone's got their own interpretation of it.

j.